Workers crash Nabisco shareholders meet to confront Oreo CEO
They call Oreo their "billion dollar cookie" but if you're manufacturing such a valuable cookie, why would you disenfranchise families to make it even more valuable?
Walmart workers plan new round of Black Friday protests
Walmart workers have been agitating peacefully for years for pro-worker changes at the notoriously anti-worker low-paying lousy-benefits retail monster.
For the W. Va. and Turkish Miners: Journal of Catherine Terry, 30 Nov. 1920
Diane Gilliam Fisher is a true poet of miners, their communities, their culture and families.
Today in labor history: The Pemberton Mill disaster
In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children.
NY labor and Occupy Wall Street unity grows
From one end of Zuccotti Park to another announcements were made about a march in solidarity with Verizon workers - then over 200 marched to Verizon headquarters at 140 West Street where Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 1101 is continuing its rallies for a fair contract.
Jobs, not cuts! Unions join Occupy Chicago
CHICAGO - Unions and community groups organized a rousing finish to a week of actions on jobs and corporate greed.
Spotlight is on jobs as “occupy” protests intensify
AFL-CIO president announces labor's full support for Occupy Wall Street protests, urges massive turnout for upcoming America Wants to Work week of actions.
Pressure grows on sugar company to end lockout
The East Grand Forks, Minn., city council voted unanimously to send a letter urging American Crystal Sugar to return to negotiations with its locked-out workers.
Workers of the world need a “new global economic order”
VANCOUVER, Canada - In the video below, Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, summarizes an opinion expressed by many at this global union meet: Make the banks pay to create jobs and clean up their mess.
